CGI in movies is bad because of the use of video game tools

Director Gore Verbinski believes that the Unreal Engine program is not suitable for special effects in films, but is good for video games.

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"Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski expressed his opinion in a recent interview that poor special effects (CGI) in modern films are a result of the fact that studios are using tools to create video games.

"Unreal Engine" is a 3D creation tool created by Epic Games and used to create games such as "Fortnite" and "Gears Of War", but Verbinski claims that using this tool to achieve cinematic effects results in "bad CGI".

"Unreal Engine is really good for video games, but then people thought that movies could also use that program for visual effects. So they got a kind of video game aesthetic in the world of cinema," the director explained.

"The fact that 'Unreal Engine' replaced the traditional film program 'Maya', in my opinion, is the biggest step backwards," he added.

In recent years, a large number of films have been criticized for poor special effects, and among the most recent is the film "Snow White", because in the opinion of critics and audiences, the dwarves could have been created much better.

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